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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Otacilia Severa| > RS87841
Otacilia Severa, Augusta, February or March 244 - September or October 249 A.D.
|Otacilia| |Severa|, |Otacilia| |Severa,| |Augusta,| |February| |or| |March| |244| |-| |September| |or| |October| |249| |A.D.|, Pudicitia was the personification of modesty and chastity. The empress Lucilla apparently felt she had too much chastity and her husband too little. It was not considered adultery for a Roman husband to have sex with slaves or unmarried women. The historian Spartianus wrote that after Lucilla complained, Lucius Verus reproached her: "Uxor enim dignitatis nomen est, non voluptatis" (Wife is the name of dignity, not bliss).
RS87841. Silver antoninianus, RIC IV 123c, RSC IV 53, Hunter III 2, SRCV III 9159, Choice gVF, excellent portrait, full circles centering, attractive toning, flow lines, reverse die wear, some light marks and scratches, Rome mint, weight 4.253g, maximum diameter 23.1mm, die axis 180o, 244 - 245 A.D.; obverse MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed and draped bust right on a crescent; reverse PVDICITIA AVG (virtue of the Empress), Pudicitia seated left, drawing veil from face with right hand, long transverse scepter in left hand; SOLD











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